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An Independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization

Organization of the Foundation


The Social Publishers Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization headquartered in San Marcos, CA (USA). The Board of Directors of the Foundation sets policy and delegates authority to the president and senior staff for the Foundation’s operations. The Foundation’s policies have been established to further its Mission.


The Social Publishers Foundation utilizes an Advisory Board of distinguished practitioners, researchers, and community leaders to advise the Board of Directors on various issues including strategic, conceptual, and practical aspects of the stated Mission. Members of the Advisory Board personally contribute and assist with raising funds for grants that the Foundation awards to practitioner-researchers and action-researchers.


A Review Panel of experienced practitioner-researchers, action-researchers, and veterans of community-based participatory research projects participates in a review process in which all submitted proposals for research and product development are carefully reviewed. Members of the Review Panel are volunteers and are committed to the maintenance of high standards for practitioner research.


In an effort to increase dissemination of research and products by practitioners, SPF has developed partnerships and collaborations with a number of organizations and institutions in various parts of the world. A pilot partnership was created with a number of faculty members at Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) in the United Kingdom. BGU is a public university in the city of Lincoln, England, which is recognized in the UK for its consistently high employability and student satisfaction rates. For this partnership a panel of BGU internal reviewers was formed in March 2017. The BGU internal reviewers select quality action-research projects and MA dissertations produced by teachers and review them before the practitioner-researchers submit them to SPF with the purpose of publishing their work in the SPF knowledge base. When publication applications are submitted to SPF, reviewers from the SPF review panel provide support to help enhance research reports, if necessary, and communicate with practitioner-researchers throughout the process toward publication. Collaborations with other universities are being established at this time.

Advisory Board

  • John Ash, Architect (ret.), Writer, Eureka, California, USA
  • Kathleen Bergquist, Professor, Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Kevin Crehan, Professor Emeritus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Bruce Damons, Director, Centre for the Community School, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Missionvale, South Africa
  • Candace Kaye, Associate Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
  • Godwin Kodituwakku, Chairman, Institute for Research & Development in Health & Social Care, Sri Lanka
  • Rolla Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Educational Psychology, California State University East Bay, USA
  • Antony Luby, Senior Lecturer, Education, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
  • Mary McAteer, Extraordinary Professor, COMBER, North-West University, South Africa; Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Nancy Murphy, Nurse Practitioner & Inside Action Researcher, New Jersey, USA;  Former Associate Professor, Advanced Practice Nursing, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA; Former Assistant Professor, Graduate Nursing Program, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA 

Reviewer-in-Chief

  • Kaz Stuart, Professor, Social and Health Inequalities, University of Cumbria, Lancaster, UK

Review Panel: Reviewers for Non-English Submission

  • Spanish: Elia Fernández-Díaz, Lecturer, Department of Education; Didactics, Teacher Education, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain
  • Spanish: Joel Judd, Director, Graduate Studies in Education; Associate Professor of Education; Southern Utah University, Utah, USA
  • Spanish: George Vera, Associate Professor, Mental Health Counseling; Barry University, Florida, USA
  • German: Katharina Heissenberger, HS-Prof., University College of Teacher Education Styria (Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark), Austria
  • Portuguese: Camilo Manchola-Castillo, Bioethics, International Public Health, Rio de Janeiro; UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, University of Brasília, Brasil

Review Panel: Reviewers for English Submission

  • Aneesha (Bhogal) Awrey, Counselor, Career and Technical Education, Kern Community College District, Bakersfield, California, USA
  • Kathleen Bergquist, Professor, Social Work, University of Nevada, USA
  • Catherine Bruce, Acting Vice-President Research and Innovation & Professor of Education, Trent University, Ontario, Canada
  • Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • Deborah Dobransky, Occupational Therapist (ret.) and Artist, Education, New Mexico, USA
  • Charlotte Hardacre, Lecturer, Institute of Health, Social Science, University of Cumbria, Lancaster, UK
  • Mina Kim, Professor, Elementary Education, San Francisco State University, California, USA
  • Alex Kwon, Former Professor, Educational Technology, Kyungsung University, Busan, S. Korea; Former Visiting Scholar on Mind, Brain, and Education, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
  • Rolla Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Educational Psychology, California State University East Bay, USA
  • Holly Marich, Regional Coordinator, Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, Nevada, USA
  • Mary McAteer, Extraordinary Professor, COMBER, North-West University, South Africa; Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Peter McDonnell, Nurse-Practitioner, Healthcare, York, UK
  • Marilyn McKinney, Professor (ret.), Literacy Education, University of Nevada, USA
  • Jean McNiff, Independent Researcher and Professor, Educational Research, York St. John University, York, UK
  • Roni Nocon, Practitioner-Researcher, School Counselor, Poway Unified School District, California, USA
  • John Peters, Professor emeritus, Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Tennessee, USA
  • R.M.M.C. Rathnayake, Lecturer (English), Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education, Badulla, Sri Lanka
  • Kevin Richardson, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Management, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • Nathan Snyder, Founder/CEO at the Learning Doctor, English Language Arts Teacher, NYC iSchool, New York, USA
  • Phil Taylor, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Management, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • Suzy Thomas, Professor, Counselor Education, St. Mary’s College of California, USA
  • Elspeth Whitney, Professor, History, University of Nevada, USA

Panel of Internal Reviewers from Bishop Grosseteste University

  • Adam Hounslow-Eyre, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, BGU, UK
  • Helen Thornally, Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Development, BGU, UK
  • Yvonne Hill, Trustee, Human Scale Education and the Forge Academy, Academic Course Leader (ret.), MA Education, BGU, UK
  • Jonathan Wainwright, Lecturer, School of Teacher Development, BGU, UK